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The Royal manuscripts are one of the "closed collections" of the British Library (i.e. historic collections to which new material is no longer added), consisting of some 2,000 manuscripts collected by the sovereigns of England in the "Old Royal Library" and given to the British Museum by George II in 1757. They are still catalogued with call ...
First page of an Italian illuminated manuscript of Cicero's Philippics; Kings MS 21 f. 2. The King's manuscripts are a collection of 446 historical manuscripts held in the British Library. The collection was originally assembled by King George III, and was passed to the British Museum by George IV in 1823 as part of the King's Library. The ...
A set of bound HMC reports at Kenwood House, London. The Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts (widely known as the Historical Manuscripts Commission, and abbreviated as the HMC to distinguish it from the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England), was a United Kingdom Royal Commission established in 1869 to survey and report on privately owned and privately held archival ...
Pages in category "British Library Royal manuscripts" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. *
British Library Royal manuscripts (14 P) S. Sloane manuscripts (1 C, 3 P) Stefan Zweig Collection (33 P) Stowe manuscripts (9 P) British Library Syriac manuscripts ...
The Arundel Manuscripts are the manuscripts collected by Thomas Howard (1585–1646), earl of Arundel and courtier during the reigns of James I and Charles I of England. Following the Great Fire of London in 1666, his grandson Henry Howard permitted the Royal Society to convene at Arundel House and allowed its fellows to access his library. [1]
The Lord Chamberlain's plays are a collection of manuscripts held by the British Library comprising scripts of all new plays in Britain that needed to be approved for performance by the Lord Chamberlain, a senior official of the British royal household, between 1824 and 1968. [1]
Between 1660 and 1664 Barlow offered the tracts, together with two copies of a manuscript catalogue to the university for £4,000 but the sale was not agreed. Thomason remained hopeful that they would be sold, and in his will dated 1664, he charged his three executors (Barlow, Thomas Lockey, and John Rushworth ) with selling the collection to ...